A crackdown on air pollution focused on wood burning stoves is being planned (Image: Getty)

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has provided fresh details regarding a possible prohibition on certain types of wood-burning stoves. Earlier this week, it was revealed that regulations governing wood burners might be strengthened to reduce their smoke output as part of the Government's revised environmental strategy.

Any newly purchased stoves would need to be modified once the new rules take effect, though current wood burners would remain unaffected. During a recent parliamentary inquiry, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy questioned Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds: "Whether she plans to introduce further restrictions on domestic wood burning in urban areas with poor air qu

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